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The pleasure demanded for the life cannot be in the
enjoyments of the licentious or in any gratifications of the
body- there is no place for these, and they stifle happiness- nor
in any violent emotions- what could so move the Sage?- it can be
only such pleasure as there must be where Good is, pleasure that
does not rise from movement and is not a thing of process, for
all that is good is immediately present to the Sage and the Sage
is present to himself: his pleasure, his contentment, stands,
immovable.
Thus he is ever cheerful, the order of his life ever untroubled:
his state is fixedly happy and nothing whatever of all that is
known as evil can set it awry- given only that he is and remains
a Sage.
If anyone seeks for some other kind of pleasure in the life of
the Sage, it is not the life of the Sage he is looking for.
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